Vote USA 2008
Comprehensive coverage of this year's US presidential election
In Vote USA 2008
Palin is the new Chuck Norris
- By Paul Evans
- 05 September 2008
Curbing Scottish drinking, being named after a favourite fishing spot and giddy excitement over Bristol's pregnancy...
Don't mention the Europeans
- By Rachael Jolley
- 05 September 2008
Palin fans found among the Conservative Christian bunch, really like to spread the word that voting Democrat would be a vote for being a bit more like Europe, or worst of all, France
Inside the Republican convention
- By Matt Kennard
- 05 September 2008
Our man in St Paul penetrates the perimeter fence and bumps into Jon Voigt, again, and other luminaries of the right wing gathering
Hurricane Sarah
- By Andrew Stephen
- 04 September 2008
McCain's new partnership with a telegenic mother-of-five has dramatically shifted the dynamics and direction of the election
Bush rails against angry left
- By Matt Kennard
- 03 September 2008
More curious tales from the Republican convention as Matt Kennard continues his reports from St Paul, Minnesota
Obama comes out fighting
- By Andrew Stephen
- 29 August 2008
The now official Democratic candidate passes his penultimate hurdle with flying colours but the real fight is only just beginning, says Andrew Stephen. Plus Thad Williamson reports on the doorstep battle for votes
The ground war
- By Thad Williamson
- 29 August 2008
Away from the glamour and glitz of the party conventions, a fierce battle for votes is already being waged on doorsteps across America. Thad Williamson reports on Obama efforts to capture the traditional "red" state of Virginia
Truth imitates fiction
- By Rachael Jolley
- 27 August 2008
The appointment of Joe Biden suggests Barack Obama is borrowing campaign tips from The West Wing
The Joe and Hillary show
- By Andrew Stephen
- 28 August 2008
Obama has taken a colossal risk in choosing the gaffe-prone Biden and may come to regret not opting for popular Clinton
Land of the free
- By Matt Kennard
- 02 September 2008
Matt Kennard is blogging the Republican convention in St Paul. Here is his account of attending the anti-war protest at the Minnesota gathering
Also in Vote USA 2008
Who scrubbed Palin clean?
- By Iain Simons
- 02 September 2008
How the Wikipedia entry of Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin was mysteriously scrubbed clean in the hours before John McCain revealed his running mate
Diehard teen republicans
- By Matt Kennard
- 01 September 2008
Matt Kennard reports from the Republican convention where he's already met with Republicans young and old and George W Bush's brain
Obama gains Joe-mentum?
- By Andrew Stephen
- 24 August 2008
Barack Obama takes a chance on a gaffe-prone running mate in Joe Biden, plus newstatesman.com's blog from the Democratic Convention in Denver
It's close and getting closer
- By Andrew Stephen
- 21 August 2008
Don't believe what you hear: this is the most unpredictable presidential race in history, and right now John McCain has the edge
America's Iraqi prisoners
- By Joseph Logan
- 08 August 2008
Detainees – all Iraqis, save for a small number of foreigners – are denied their basic right not to be held indefinitely without charge or trial. Many are young men rounded up in mass, arbitrary arrests
The BBC's Labour prism?
- By Paul Evans
- 25 July 2008
Glasgow East, Tory cycling and Moses Obama on tour
Turning right together
- By Andrew Stephen
- 10 July 2008
In the final stages of most battles for the presidency, the Republican candidate drifts to the left while the Democrat heads right. This year, McCain and Obama are fighting over the same conservative ground
Flip-flopping
- By Raffaello Pantucci
- 07 July 2008
The reality is that the “flip flop” is really little more than a catchy phrase that essentially captures what politician’s have been doing for years
In defence of drilling
- By Jim DiPeso
- 23 June 2008
Jim DiPeso, Policy Director for Republicans for Environmental Protection, explains McCain's take on the environment, including his proposal to allow offshore drilling
Obama's first presidency
- By Geoffrey Robertson
- 19 June 2008
As a brilliant student, the Democratic candidate became the first black editor of the influential Harvard Law Review. What does volume 140 reveal about his future career?
Obama is a truly Democratic expansionist
- By John Pilger
- 12 June 2008
Truly exciting and historic moments have been fabricated around US presidential campaigns for as long as I can recall, generating bullshit on a grand scale
A new dawn for the Caribbean?
- By Darcus Howe
- 12 June 2008
The mass movement which has lifted Obama up high was bubbling beneath the surface of American society long before he issued his challenge
The lessons of Obama
- By David Lammy
- 05 June 2008
His campaign has rewritten the political handbook and created a new politics of real involvement
